In short order Hill and Inspector Carol Jordan have a fourth crime to work with-the mutilated body of a local constable-but it doesn't help Andy is too savvy, and now too practiced, to leave any traces at the scene. Tom Cross won't admit the possibility that the three torture-murders are the work of a single hand. Tony, who's treating his own sexual hangups by not hanging up on an importunate caller looking for phone sex, is hauled aboard the stalled investigation when bigoted Supt. Kate Brannigan (Clean Break, 1995, etc.) could have prepared you for this taut study of Handy Andy, the name that psychological profiler Tony Hill has adopted to humanize the faceless S/M connoisseur the Bradfield coppers call the Queer Killer. Nothing in McDermid's wisecracking books about Manchester p.i.
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